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Alexander Pope (1688-1744)-Born in London, Pope was the son of a Catholic linean-draper. As a Catholic, he could not enrol in the universities, was subjected to double taxation and excluded from public officies. Pope's sensitive nature strongly resented such discrimination, and his melancholy temper was also aggravated by his poor health; he suffered fr

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11 Consider your notes.
a) Does the narrator appear to you as a person who has fulfilled her ideals and is pleased with herself? Why/Why

blow up
esplodere (intr.), riempire d’aria (trans.)
break down
cedere, smettere di funzionare, interrompersi (negoziati)
break in
entrare di forza
break off
rompere (separarsi)
break out
scoppiare (di guerre)
break through
sfondare
break up
terminare (riunioni, incontri)
bring someone around
po

Ma invece di questo, quasi inutilmente si stanca; sempre si dibatte attraverso gli appartamenti del palazzo interno; non li supererà mai; e se riuscisse in questo, nulla sarebbe raggiunto; per scendere le scale dovrebbe lottare; e se riuscisse in questo, nulla sarebbe raggiunto; i cortili sarebbero da attraversare; e ancora il cortile del secondo palazz

La scena si svolgeva in un'aula spoglia, anonima, monotona, lugubre; per dare enfasi a queste osservazioni l'oratore sottolineava ogni fase, tracciando con l'indice quadrato una linea sulla manica del maestro. A dare ancora più enfasi alle parole dell'oratore c'erano il muro quadrato della sua fronte con le sopracciglia per base e, sotto, gli occhi, com

Eighteenth-century society championed individualism, seizing opportunities in sector of economy which provided scope for initiative, enterprise and enrichment.
This Age was in many way open and free. Enlightened thinkers (Locke, Addison and Goldsmith) rejected the strict and pessimistic values of Puritanism. They believe in the new view of the worl

diskutieren mit
sprechen mit
telefonieren mit
vergleichen mit
smettere di (fare qualcosa)
discutere con
parlare con
parlare al telefono con
confrontare con
nach + dativo
fragen nach
suchen nach

chiedere a qualcuno qualcosa
cercare qualcosa
(ber + accusativo
sich (rgern (b

from German in 1592 by P. F. Gent. This site allows users with diverse interests and
differing degrees of familiarity with Renaissance literature to examine these texts and the
intricate relationships between them. Electronic publication makes it possible to view this
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In or around 1378, Chaucer began to develop his vision of an English poetry that would be linguistically accessible to all, and obedient neither to the court, whose official language was French, nor the church, whose official language was Latin. Instead, Chaucer wrote in the vernacular English that was spoken in and around London in his day. Undoubtably

Dall’altro lato, e lasciando a parte il problema di una possibile edizione anteriore del Lazarillo, si è pensato -senza arrivare a conclusioni definitive- che la geniale novella poteva essere stata composta molto prima della sua pubblicazione, in un periodo i cui limiti estremi si situano tra il 1525 o il 1526 e il 1550, data quest’ultima cui s